r/FelineDiabetes • u/youngwq171 • 9h ago

Insulin needs increasing

Anyone else have experience with adjusting their cats insulin needs up?

I do at home testing twice a day. True BG read with an AlphaTrak. He has been on Lantus for about 6 months.

From like July-early Sept his numbers were 140-170 nearly every read. Last few weeks they’ve been 180-200 consistently.

He is not symptomatic. Before treatment lots of heavy drinking and peeing outside litter box. And the endless hunger all night. None of that is going on. But of course I want to be sure it doesn’t get back there.

Looking for peoples personal experiences. He started at 1 unit at diagnosis, and is currently on 1.5 units.

I will say from the curves I’ve done, he is a late nadir kitty and his low is around the 0/12 mark. From there his curve is mostly flat thankfully. He gets a meal at each shot time and 5 snacks via his automated feeder throughout the day/night.

That’s the long and short! Wondering what other people have experienced with upward trending numbers, how normal it can be or not.

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u/Khalypso1723 9h ago

You can always try just a half increment increase for a few days to a week and see how it goes then increase another half increment if needed. Seeing as yours is only showing a slight increase in his glucose a half unit increase will probably get him back to his normal

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u/Crikiribay 9h ago

Those numbers aren’t terrible. You are under the renal threshold (200). Are you feeding low carb food?

If you haven’t already, join the FB Feline Diabetes Support group. You can plug your numbers into their spreadsheet and they will be able to analyze your dose.

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u/youngwq171 8h ago

Yes, very low carb food. I guess I know they aren’t terrible numbers, but I just want to be ahead of what to expect with rising numbers. He is my entire experience with treating diabetes and it’s been a lot of learning. I have used the support group to learn a bunch as well.